Tool handle or holder



Mar. 27, 1923. 4 1,449,430

L. L. MARTIN TOOL HANDLE OR H'OLDER Filed Feb. 21, 1922 WITNESS Patented Mar. 27, 1923.

nm'rso STATES hasa LEROY L. MARTIN, F PATERSON, NEW JERSEY.

moor. HANDLE on HOLDER.

Application filed February 21, 1922. Serial No. 538,160.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LEROY L. MARTIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tool Handles or Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to handles or holders for tools and it has for its object to provide a handle or holder for safety razor blades that can be manufactured and sold at a trifling cost and that will obtain an effective grip on the blade and afford to the users hand a comfortable as well as secure grip thereon. The device may be formed according to my invention from a simple rectangular blank of stiff sheet material by simply slitting the same once and then foldm ing and bending the blank.

A further object is to provide, at as little additional expense as possible, a sheath or guard for the working edge of the blade.

In the drawing,

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the improved handle or holder, showing a razor blade held therein and also a guard on the "working edge-of the blade;

Fig. 2 is a plan of the blank from which the handle or holder is formed;

Fig. 3 is a plan of the completed handle or holder;

Fig. 4 is a side elevation thereof, partly in section, showing a blade in position;

Figs. 5 and 6 are sectional views on lines 5-5 and 66 of Fig. 4, Fig. 5 also showing a certain sheath in section;

Fig. 7 shows the blank from which the said guard may be formed; and

Figs. 8 and 9 are a side elevation and a plan of a modified form.

a designates an oblong blank of sheet metal. From one end along the line of its central longitudinal axis and for a distance representing somewhat more than one-half its length this blank is formed with a slit 6.

The blank is then folded on the line of its central longitudinal axis, asat 0, Fig. 8, so as to bring its portions a a which have been left transversely connected into face to face relation to eac other but preferably sufficiently spaced so that a blade can be wedged in between them, it being contemplated in the preferred form of the invention that a certain degree of inherent elasticity 1n the metal of the blank shall cause the portions or walls a a to hold the blade entered between them' If desired the free end edges of the portions or walls a a may be turned inwardly and abut each other, as in Flg. 6, to close the outer end of the'blade pocket (I that is formed between said portions.

Having thus formed the holder proper A of the device, the portions a a of the blank, which originally lie both sides of the slit b and now form extensions of the fold-forming portions or a, are sprung apart so as to stand as to the major part of their length converging in the direction of the said holder proper (see Fig. 3), their outer extremities being bent toward and made to abut each other end to end, as indicated at (L preferably their ends at this point are soldered together, as shown at e. Thusthe portions 0. a come to form the handle proper B of the device.

The blade f illustrated is a double-edged sheet metal blade ofthe so-called Gillette type (my invention is however not limited to this particular typeof blade).

It is introduced into the holder proper of the holder or handle in an obviousnianner and when in place stands clamped between the portions or walls a a thereof and abutting the bottom or back of the pocket (1 formed by the fold '0. In many uses of the implement formed by the assembled holder or handle and blade it will be desirable to positively prevent slippage of the blade outward or away from the handle'proper, and to this end the abutting end edges of the portions or a may act as a stop 9 for the blade.

When the implement formed by the assembled blade and handle or holder is not in use the exposed edge of the blade may be sheathed in a guard it formed by folding on its central longitudinal axis the oblong sheet-metal blank 1' shown in Fig. 7 the op posite walls produced by this folding being adapted to clamp the blade introduced between them and so retain the guard n place. The object underlying the slitting of the blank at b and the bending of the portions a a is to give the handle greater transverse dimension or otherwise have and thus afiord a more comthickness than it would I fortable and secure grip to the hand of the user.

In the modified form shown in'Figs. 8 and 9 the handle or holder may be formed from a blank exactly like that shown in Fig. 2, which will be folded on line a the same as before, thereby producing the blade-holder proper A. But to produce the handle proper B the portions separated by the slit 6 are first bent outwardly convergently, as at'sc, then'm'ade to extend parallel with the plane of the holder proper A, as at and then bent inwardly, as at 2, their free ends meeting and 'ifdesi-red being soldered together. A modified form-of sheath is also shown, being formed from a blank s1mulatingthe blank z' excepting that at one end'it has lateral-projections 2' which, on folding the blank in the same manner as blank 2', are preferably spaced nearly as -far:as are the portionsg of the handle or holder. Through these projections and said walls or portions y, near theirinner endsya riveted pivot is passed, the spaced-apart projections giving: a certain desirable stability to the sheath, especially against sidewise displacement. The sheath may turn on a pivot j into housi-ng relat'ion' to the working edge of the blade'or into completely housed relation to'th'e handle proper B. p

' Having thus fully'described my invention, what I'claim' as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A' tool holder consisting of a folded piece of stiff" sheet material having its foldforming portions standing face to facegand adapted to grip between them the tool to be held and having extensions projecting from said portions lengthwise of the fold and one of saidextensionsdeflected away from the other, said extensions thereby forming a handle proper of greater thickness than the folded part of the piece.

2; A too'l holder consisting of a folded piece of stiff sheet material having its fold forming portions-standing face to face and adapted to gripbetween thenrthe tool. to be held and having extensions projecting from said portions lengthwise of the fold and one of said "extensionsdefiectedaway from the other, said extensions thereby forming a handle proper of greater thickness than the foldedpart ofthe piece and one of them having its free end bent toward and bearing against the other.

3. A toolhholder consisting of a piece of stiff sheet material having a part thereof folded and adapted to grip between the foldforming portions thereof a blade having its edge protruding laterally, said portions having extensions projecting therefrom longis tudinally of :the foldv and spaced from each other, in combination withia sheath for the blade consisting of a 'pieceof folded stiff sheet material projecting between and pivoted tonne of said extensions on an. axissubstantially perpendicular thereto, said sheath wheirturnedon saidiaxis in one direction being adapted to be housed substantially entirely; between said: extensions and when turned .in the other direction being adapted to house the-blade edge.

41-. .A toolholder consisting: of apiece of,

stiff sheet material having a part thereof folded and adaptedto grip between the foldforming portionsthereofa blade havingiits edge protruding laterally, said. portionshav- I ingextensions projecting, therefrom .longitudinallyof thefold andispaced from each other, in-combination with asheath for the blade consisting of a piece of folded stiff sheet material having; projections. spaced further thanlitsufold-forming portions and;

eXtending-betweenand pivotedto said extensions on an axis-substantially perpen- (llCLlltIfithQI'GtO; said sheath when turned on said axis in one direction being adapted -to be housed substantially-entirely between said extensions and when turned in the otherdirection: being; adapted to house the blade edge.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

LEROY. L; 1 MARTIN. 

